Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan opened three boxes and found a fourth-grade immortal art, Dragon Essence, and a Chaos Source Stone capable of growing into an Immortal King-level bonded artifact. He planned to reach the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm, help Tantai Yue advance to Profound Immortal, and then auction the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine in the capital.

• Li Qingshan opened the black wooden box and discovered the fourth-grade Carefree Wandering Sword Art inheritance.
• Li Qingshan opened the azure jade box and found Dragon Essence, which Tantai Yue identified as a supreme treasure worth millions of immortal stones.
• Li Qingshan opened the gray-white stone box and suppressed its chaos-colored light with his law of chaos.
• Li Qingshan learned from the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd that the stone was a Chaos Source Stone that could be refined into a bonded immortal artifact and grow to the Immortal King level.
• Li Qingshan stored the three treasures and told Tantai Yue that he would first cultivate to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm, help her break through to Profound Immortal, and later auction the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine in the capital.

Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue completed their third dual cultivation session, advancing Li to peak Heavenly Immortal and helping Tantai Yue break through to Profound Immortal. After leaving her to stabilize her cultivation, Li prepared to begin the True Dragon Transformation.

• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue began their third session of dual cultivation in the Purple Void Immortal Mansion.
• Li Qingshan broke through to the peak Heavenly Immortal stage as the session continued.
• Li Qingshan channeled chaos immortal power into Tantai Yue's first immortal aperture, helping her break through to Profound Immortal.
• Tantai Yue thanked Li Qingshan, and he had her remain in the Purple Void Immortal Mansion to stabilize her cultivation.
• Li Qingshan took dragon essence from the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and swallowed it to begin cultivating the True Dragon Transformation.

Li Qingshan refined the Dragon Essence and mastered True Dragon Transformation, then gained the Azure Dragon Transformation method and awakened Dragon Emperor Space-Rending Claw. He resolved to seek the later inheritance through one of the seven great immortal sects, then sensed that someone else had benefited too.

• Li Qingshan endured three days of painful refinement before mastering True Dragon Transformation and gaining a body comparable to a late-stage Profound Immortal's.
• Li Qingshan absorbed the Dragon Essence's inherited memory and learned the complete method for the fifth transformation, Azure Dragon Transformation.
• Li Qingshan awakened the innate bloodline ability Dragon Emperor Space-Rending Claw and tested it, tearing through the space and laws inside the Purple Void Immortal Mansion.
• Li Qingshan returned to human form and resolved to enter one of the seven great immortal sects to search for the later Dragon Clan inheritance.
• Li Qingshan sensed that someone else had gained something from the Dragon Essence and asked them about it.

Li Qingshan’s God-Devil Avatar advanced to peak two-star strength, and he fused the chaos source stone into the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal, raising it to a supreme-grade immortal artifact. With his strength greatly increased, he prepared to leave Profound Yang Ancient City for the capital of the Great Qian Kingdom.

• Li Qingshan’s God-Devil Avatar reached peak two-star god-devil and gained strength comparable to a peak Heavenly Immortal.
• Li Qingshan summoned Heishan and began fusing the chaos source stone into the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal using his law of chaos.
• After half a month, the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal became a supreme-grade immortal artifact, and Heishan said it could suppress even peak Profound Immortals.
• Li Qingshan assessed his increased combat strength and decided to leave Profound Yang Ancient City for the capital of the Great Qian Kingdom.

Tantai Yue stabilized her breakthrough to the early Profound Immortal stage while Li Qingshan reached peak Heavenly Immortal and improved his physical body. They set out for Qian Heaven City, where Li planned to earn enough immortal stones to obtain the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine.

• Tantai Yue opened her eyes after stabilizing her Profound Immortal cultivation, and Li Qingshan congratulated her after revealing that he had reached peak Heavenly Immortal and broken through physically.
• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue left the Purple Void Immortal Mansion and saw refugees displaced by the Northern Nether Demon Kingdom’s advance through the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom’s eastern defenses.
• The pair joined the teleportation line in Profound Yang Ancient City and learned that the trip to Qian Heaven City cost six hundred thousand immortal stones.
• Tantai Yue paid with her pale-gold immortal stone card and explained the card tiers, immortal crystals, and their value to Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan decided that alchemy was his best way to earn money and resolved to obtain the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine by refining valuable pills.

Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue arrived in Qian Heaven City, the vast capital of the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom, and learned about its powerful rulers and defenses. Li Qingshan released Yun Ping'er from the Purple Void Immortal Mansion, and she prepared to find her ascended ancestor in the city.

• Li Qingshan studied the spatial passage during teleportation and arrived with Tantai Yue in Qian Heaven City.
• Tantai Yue explained that Qian Heaven City was the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom's capital, founded by an Immortal Lord and protected by a seventh-grade immortal formation.
• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue walked through the crowded city and found a secluded spot.
• Li Qingshan opened the Purple Void Immortal Mansion and let Yun Ping'er out after nearly two months inside.
• Yun Ping'er thanked Li Qingshan, said she would seek out an ancestor from her Household, and noticed the closeness between him and Tantai Yue.

Li Qingshan accompanied Tantai Yue to the Tantai Clan residence in Qian Heaven City, where Tantai Xue mocked and insulted her. After Tantai Yue struck Tantai Xue, Li Qingshan effortlessly defeated the two guards she ordered to attack them, leaving Tantai Xue stunned.

• Yun Ping'er parted from Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue, giving Li Qingshan a jade slip with her ancestors’ address in Qian Heaven City.
• Tantai Yue led Li Qingshan to the Tantai Clan residence, where the guards recognized her as the Third Miss.
• Tantai Xue taunted Tantai Yue for returning before reaching the Profound Immortal realm and insulted Li Qingshan as an outsider.
• When Tantai Xue insulted Tantai Yue’s deceased parents, Tantai Yue slapped her and warned her not to speak of her father.
• Tantai Xue ordered two guards to attack, but Li Qingshan broke one guard’s wrist and knocked both guards down with ease.

Tantai Yue punished Tantai Xue for insulting her family, then clashed with Tantai Hong when he tried to attack her. Li Qingshan repelled Tantai Hong with one punch, and Tantai Xuanji summoned Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue to the clan’s forbidden grounds.

• Tantai Yue slapped Tantai Xue and revealed that she had reached the Profound Immortal realm.
• Tantai Hong arrived with clan members and guards, accused Tantai Yue of breaking clan rules, and attacked her.
• Li Qingshan blocked Tantai Hong’s palm strike with one punch and sent the peak Profound Immortal staggering back.
• Tantai Yue challenged Tantai Hong’s treatment of her and called for Tantai Xuanji to uphold justice.
• Tantai Xuanji ordered Tantai Yue to bring Li Qingshan to the forbidden grounds, and they left as Tantai Hong and Tantai Xue watched.

Li Qingshan accompanied Tantai Yue to meet Tantai Xuanji, the Tantai Clan’s Golden Immortal ancestor, who praised her breakthrough and questioned Li Qingshan about his background. After learning of Tantai Hong’s failure to rescue Tantai Yue, Tantai Xuanji promised to punish him and presented Tantai Yue with powerful immortal treasures and pills.

• Tantai Yue brought Li Qingshan through the forbidden grounds to meet Tantai Xuanji in a secluded courtyard.
• Tantai Xuanji congratulated Tantai Yue on reaching the Profound Immortal realm and encouraged her to seek a place in the Primordial Unity Immortal Sect.
• Tantai Yue credited Li Qingshan with saving her life and helping her breakthrough, and Tantai Xuanji thanked him for protecting a member of the clan.
• Tantai Xuanji questioned Li Qingshan about his origins and strong physique, and Li Qingshan claimed to be a Rogue Cultivator who had found natural treasures for body cultivation.
• Tantai Xuanji revealed that he knew Tantai Hong had failed to rescue Tantai Yue and vowed to punish the clan head.
• Tantai Xuanji gave Tantai Yue the supreme-grade immortal artifacts Moonlight and the Silver Scale Immortal Robe, along with twelve Taiyin Mystic Pills.

Tantai Xuanji rewarded Tantai Yue and Li Qingshan for their deeds, granting Li a place in the immortal sect selection and access to the Tantai Clan library. At the library, Li found a cracked jade slip labeled Lesser Treasure Refinement Art as he searched for an immortal art worth learning.

• Tantai Xuanji gave Tantai Yue three treasures and promised Li Qingshan a place in the immortal sect selection, a guest elder token, and a reasonable request.
• Tantai Yue brought Li Qingshan to her residence and explained how to reach the Tantai Clan library.
• Li Qingshan set restrictions around the courtyard and worried that Tantai Xuanji might have sensed his hidden identity as an ascender.
• Li Qingshan presented his token to the library guardian, who allowed him to enter and choose one immortal art from above the third floor.
• Li Qingshan browsed the library's floors and spotted a cracked jade slip labeled Lesser Treasure Refinement Art on the fourth floor.

Li Qingshan chose the Lesser Treasure Refinement Art, a fragment of one of the Three Thousand Immortal Arts, and used the Tantai Clan’s Scripture Repository to learn about the Immortal Realm. He left at dusk resolved to cultivate the art and grow stronger.

• Li Qingshan selected the Lesser Treasure Refinement Art, and the old man copied it for him while warning him not to pass on the Scripture Repository’s immortal arts.
• Li Qingshan learned that the first three floors were open to guest elders, then browsed the repository to fill gaps in his knowledge of the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan read about the Thirty-Three Heavens, their dominant races and powers, and the conflict behind the Northern Nether Demon Kingdom’s invasion of the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom.
• Li Qingshan discovered that the Heavenly Court once ruled the Thirty-Three Heavens before a calamity shattered it and the Heavenly Emperor vanished.
• Li Qingshan finished reading at dusk and left the repository resolved to comprehend the Lesser Treasure Refinement Art and quickly increase his strength.

At Freewheeling King's Manor, Tantai Xue urged Li Xuanyu to avenge her after Tantai Yue slapped her and Li Qingshan struck a guard. Li Xuanyu recognized Li Qingshan as the man who had ruined his scheme in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range and vowed to kill him, leaving his plans for revenge unstated.

• Tantai Xue complained to Li Xuanyu that Tantai Yue had slapped her five times and that Li Qingshan had struck a Tantai Clan guard.
• Li Xuanyu asked about Li Qingshan, recognized his face, and recalled how Li Qingshan had foiled his plot against Tantai Yue and badly wounded him.
• Li Xuanyu remembered that he had planned to use Tantai Yue's Jade Marrow Immortal Body to break through to the Mysterious Immortal realm.
• Tantai Xue pressed Li Xuanyu to punish Tantai Yue and Li Qingshan, and he promised to deal with them using his own methods.
• Li Xuanyu declared that Li Qingshan had to die for ruining his plans and vowed revenge for the strike in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range.

Li Qingshan discovered that the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd could not repair the Lesser Treasure Refinement Art, so he studied the fragment and cultivated its three levels. After reaching great accomplishment, he strengthened his control over the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal, the Thunder Prison Blade, and the Chaos Ancient Cauldron.

• Li Qingshan found that the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd showed no reaction to the Lesser Treasure Refinement Art and concluded that he might need more fragments to obtain the complete Great Treasure Refinement Immortal Art.
• Li Qingshan studied the Lesser Treasure Refinement Art and learned that it could refine ownerless artifacts, strengthen natal artifacts, and seize another person's artifact.
• Li Qingshan practiced on a low-grade immortal artifact and raised its power by at least twenty percent.
• Li Qingshan used the art to deepen his connection with the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal, and Heishan celebrated their closer bond.
• After ten days of practice, Li Qingshan reached great accomplishment and successfully refined an artifact in less than three breaths.
• Li Qingshan further refined the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal, the Thunder Prison Blade, and the Chaos Ancient Cauldron, improving his control over all three.

Li Qingshan sought funds to buy the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine at an upcoming auction, so he chose to earn money by refining Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pills. He sold a sword art and bought ingredients at Ten Thousand Treasures Tower, where Zhou Mingyuan offered to purchase any pills he made.

• Li Qingshan decided to refine Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pills because their ingredients were available and the pills could earn him immortal stones.
• Li Qingshan left the Tantai Clan while Tantai Yue remained in seclusion.
• Li Qingshan sold the Carefree Wandering Sword Art to Zhou Mingyuan for one million immortal stones.
• Li Qingshan spent nine hundred thousand immortal stones on five sets of ingredients for Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pills.
• Zhou Mingyuan offered to buy Li Qingshan's pills for at least one million immortal stones each, and Li Qingshan gave no definite answer.

Li Qingshan refined the Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill in the Purple Void Immortal Mansion, producing twenty pills, including three premium ones. He chose not to use one to advance yet, deciding to consolidate his foundation and save his breakthrough for the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill.

• Zhou Mingyuan gave Li Qingshan a VIP Token from the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower and asked him to consider selling them the pills he refined.
• Li Qingshan studied the Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill formula, then used the Chaos Ancient Cauldron to refine five batches.
• Li Qingshan refined one pill in the first batch, two in the second, five in the third, and six in each of the final two batches.
• Li Qingshan discovered that three pills from the fifth batch had three pill patterns each, making them premium immortal pills.
• Li Qingshan counted twenty pills in total and estimated their value at twenty million immortal stones, enough to bid for the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine.
• Li Qingshan decided against using a premium pill to break through, choosing to consolidate his cultivation and wait for the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill.

Li Qingshan went to Qian Heaven City's underground black market to attend the Star-Picking Pavilion auction, hoping to pursue the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine. He entered by offering a premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill and found that several Golden Immortals were among the bidders.

• Li Qingshan sold seventeen ordinary Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pills for sixteen million immortal stones and kept three premium pills for the auction.
• Li Qingshan concealed his identity and aura and traveled to the underground black market in Qian Heaven City.
• Qian Duoduo recognized Li Qingshan from their earlier meeting in Profound Yang Ancient City and said that he had thousands of clones across Supreme Emperor Heaven.
• Li Qingshan offered a premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill with three pill markings to gain admission to the Star-Picking Pavilion auction.
• Li Qingshan entered the auction hall and saw that several hundred concealed bidders, including at least five or six Golden Immortals, had gathered.

Li Qingshan sensed Li Xuanyu and a Devil Race woman at the Star-Picking Pavilion auction, then concealed himself as Qian Duoduo began selling the lots. While Li Qingshan waited for the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine, Li Xuanyu planned to obtain it with Master Yang and use the resulting pill to win the Qian Emperor’s favor and advance his cultivation.

• Li Qingshan sensed that Li Xuanyu and the Devil Race woman from Coiling Dragon Mountain Range were attending the auction, and he hid his aura to avoid being recognized.
• Qian Duoduo opened the auction and offered the Nine Palaces Sword Array, which a late-stage Profound Immortal bought for eighteen million immortal stones.
• Li Qingshan ignored the early lots and waited for the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine.
• Li Xuanyu asked Master Yang whether the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine would appear, and Master Yang assured him he could refine the pill with an eighty percent chance of success.
• Li Xuanyu resolved to acquire the vine so he could present the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill to the Qian Emperor and pursue a breakthrough to the Profound Immortal realm.

At the Star-Picking Pavilion auction, Li Qingshan competed with Li Xuanyu for Nine-Orifice Immortal Vines and used Qian Duoduo’s tip to secure two at a lower price. Li Xuanyu left with only one costly vine and asked Master Yang to refine the pill, while a hidden Devil Race woman continued searching for the thief who stole her Time Immortal Peach.

• A Devil Race woman in Qian Heaven City searched the auction for clues to the thief who had stolen her Time Immortal Peach, which she needed to break through to Golden Immortal.
• Li Qingshan watched the auction and recognized the Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine when Qian Duoduo presented it as a main attraction.
• Li Xuanyu outbid Li Qingshan and bought the first vine for twenty million immortal stones, after which Qian Duoduo secretly told Li Qingshan that three vines were available.
• Li Qingshan won the second vine for twelve million immortal stones after Li Xuanyu ran out of funds.
• Li Qingshan bought the third vine for five million immortal stones, leaving him with two vines in total, while Li Xuanyu angrily asked Master Yang to refine a Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill from his vine.

Li Qingshan watched the auction and used the premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill to drive up Li Xuanyu’s bid. Li Xuanyu won it for twenty million immortal stones, then realized Li Qingshan had deliberately pushed the price higher and flew into a rage.

• Qian Duoduo presented a premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill, and bidders quickly pushed its price above five million immortal stones.
• Li Qingshan recognized the pill he had refined and was pleased as its price climbed.
• Li Xuanyu decided the pill could secure his breakthrough to the Profound Immortal realm, and Master Yang praised its quality.
• Li Xuanyu bid twelve million immortal stones before Li Qingshan entered the contest at thirteen million.
• Li Qingshan repeatedly outbid Li Xuanyu until Li Xuanyu offered twenty million immortal stones.
• Li Qingshan stopped bidding and let Li Xuanyu win, prompting Li Xuanyu to realize he had been toyed with and erupt in anger.

At the Qian Heaven City auction, Li Qingshan let Li Xuanyu overpay for a premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill, then spent twenty-two million immortal stones to win a badly damaged bronze bell that powerfully attracted the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd. He left the auction hall convinced the bell concealed a valuable secret.

• Li Xuanyu won the premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill for twenty million immortal stones and realized the mysterious bidder had driven up the price.
• Qian Duoduo presented an ancient, heavily damaged bronze bell that he said had once been an Immortal Lord's bonded artifact.
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd shuddered with intense longing when Li Qingshan saw the bell, prompting him to bid.
• Li Qingshan outbid a Golden Immortal and won the bronze bell for twenty-two million immortal stones.
• Li Qingshan prepared to cover the auction bill with his remaining premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pills and quietly left the hall.